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<h1>Announcing Grid Engine 6.1 Beta Binaries<br>
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Regensburg, Germany -- February 27, 2007
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Grid Engine 6.1 Beta courtesy binaries are now ready for download.
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Grid Engine 6.1 will be the next step in the evolution of the Grid
Engine
software. This release will help administrators to better manage access
to
computational resources in a cluster and continues to improve its
excellent
scalability in large clusters with a huge amount of jobs.
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The courtesy binaries are available at<br>
<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a
 href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/61downloads/download_61beta.html">http://gridengine.sunsource.net/project/gridengine/61downloads/download_61beta.html</a><br>
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<h3>New functionality delivered with SGE 6.1 Beta:<br>
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<ul>
  <li>Resource Quotas allow to limit the maximum number of running jobs
per
user, user group, projects on arbitrary resources like queues, hosts,
memory, software licenses. A firewall-like rule syntax allows an
unprecedented flexibility in defining Grid Engine Resource Quotas (RQ).
The man pages qquota(1), sge_resource_quota(5) and qconf(1) describe
the new functionality. </li>
  <li>the complex string attributes (CSTRING, STRING, RESTRING, HOST)
has been
enhanced to allow regular boolean expressions for wildcards or
patterns. The
new syntax is defined in the sge_types(1) man page and examples can be
found
in complex(5). </li>
  <li>the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH is no longer set for
Solaris and Linux
by the Grid Engine settings.[c]sh file. Instead the dynamic library
path is determined
at runtime. </li>
  <li>new switch "-wd" for qsub, qalter, qsh, qrsh and qmon to specify
the
job working
directory. </li>
  <li>MySQL support for the Grid Engine Accounting and Reporting
Console
(ARCo)<br>
  </li>
  <li>support for Apple Mac OS X on the x86 platform </li>
  <li>support for Linux on Itanium (IA64)</li>
  <li>delivers native 64-bit binaries for HP-UX 11<br>
  </li>
  <li>a Solaris 10 DTrace script supports monitoring and helps to do a
bottleneck analysis </li>
  <li>with the help of our community members job online usage is now
supported for Apple Mac OS X, IBM AIX and HP HP-UX </li>
  <li>various qmon usability improvements<br>
  </li>
  <li>support for FreeBSD at source code level</li>
  <li>for developers an early access to a Java API (JGDI) is part of
the courtesy binary
distribution</li>
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The corresponding source code tags in the "gridengine" and "arco"
project CVS repositories have the name<br>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">V61beta_TAG</span><br>
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A snapshot of the sources is available at the <a
 href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/servlets/ProjectDownloadList">Documents
&amp; files</a> page<br>
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<a
 href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/files/documents/7/124/sge-V61beta_TAG-src.tar.gz">sge-V61beta_TAG-src.tar.gz</a><br>
<a
 href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/files/documents/7/125/arco-V61beta_TAG-src.tar.gz">arco-V61beta_TAG-src.tar.gz</a>
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A list of fixed problems since SGE 6.1preview is available at<br>
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<a
 href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/project/gridengine/61patches.txt">http://gridengine.sunsource.net/project/gridengine/61patches.txt</a><br>
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